Many free online tools want your email first. Most of what they do can happen in the browser instead, and this is how.
Use plain text email
There are two main types of emails on the internet: plain text and HTML. Many people, particularly in technical communities, strongly prefer or even require the use of plain text email from participants. However, your mail client may not have it set up by default. We'll help you get it configured, and introduce you to the norms and conventions of plain text email.
delphitools — privacy-first browser tools
A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools. No logins, no registration, no data collection. Everything runs locally in your browser.
Make your Gmail more private - Nathan Nelson
Proton, the Swiss encrypted and privacy-aware email service, now lets you read and reply to your Gmail emails from within Proton. If you’re looking to wean yourself off Gmail, or just curious about trying an alternative, this could be a good place to start: anyone you reply to will still receive your messages as Gmail, ... Read more
Email explained from first principles
Modern email is a patchwork of protocols and extensions. Here is one article to understand them all.
New Custom Handlers component for Chrome – make everything intensely
The HTML Standard section on Custom Handlers describes the procedure to register custom protocol handlers for URLs with specific schemes. When a URL is followed, the protocol dictates which part of the system handles it by consulting registries. In some cases, handlers may fall to the OS level and and launch a desktop application (eg. mailto:// may launch a native application) or, the browser may redirect the request to a different HTTP(S) URL (eg. mailto:// can go to gmail).
Semble bookmarklet
Learn how to add our bookmarklet to your browser to quickly open any webpage in Semble.
How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript — Smashing Magazine
The gap between “you need a library for this” and “the browser does this” keeps closing. A practical guide to auditing your dependencies and finding what the web platform can now handle for you.
Frontend Minimalism in Action: Do More With Less JavaScript | Peter Kröner | webinale Berlin 2026
HTML Can Do That
HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.
KhalidLam/CubeMail
CubeMail is a webmail client built using React and Chakra UI, It runs in the browser and uses the Gmail's public Javascript API.
Ronny Chieng
Instead of figuring out how to game these horrible social media algorithms by flooding my followers with dumb content, I’m trying to actually respect my audience for once by creating an email list to contact you only when I want something from you. For example, if I’m performing live in your area and I want to you to come, or if I have a new comedy special out and I want you to click on it, or beam it into your brain or whatever the comedy platform of the future will be. Sign up below and unsubscribe at anytime.
For You, For Everyone - Graze Newsletter
How Graze built a "composable personalization" engine for the open social web — and why it matters right now.
davatron5000/awesome-standalones
A curated list of awesome framework-agnostic standalone web components
Quill
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